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• Revista Brasileira de Direito Animal

The purpose of this scientific work is to analyze the legal status of pets in our legal system, and verify that it is consistent with the defense of their rights in childfree couples as well as the dispute of such when the breakdown of marriage or stable union occurs. The Civil Code categorizes pets as livestock. In order for these animals to have their due regard, they should be treated as...

• Veredas do Direito. Direito Ambiental e Desenvolvimento Sustentável

This article aims at addressing the impasse created by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)1 when it granted to Soco, an English multinational company, the permit to exploit oil and start drilling inside the Virunga National Park in the province of North Kivu, Ituri area, which is protected by UNESCO as a Heritage of Humanity and recognized worldwide as the sanctuary of the...

• O Globo

• O Globo

• Revista Direito das Relações Sociais e Trabalhistas

Este artigo apresenta uma comparação sistemática de cada grupo de trabalhadores imigrantes nos Estados Unidos, baseando-se em uma revisão da literatura existente e em um novo estudo, para examinar os desafios enfrentados por cada conjunto de imigrantes. Concluímos que diferenças específicas nas categorias de leis de imigração dos EUA podem moldar a maneira como os imigrantes interagem com regimes

• Seqüência: estudos jurídicos e políticos

Using an original dataset comprising thirty years of legislative histories of U.S. federal statutes, I show that, in debates over bills whose enactment might trigger international law violations, members of Congress urge international law compliance relatively often. The arguments are overwhelmingly supportive of international law and often phrased in legalistic terms. These findings imply that...

• Revista Gênero & Direito

The article is dedicated to the research of semantic word formation of verbs in the language space of Russian subdialects. From the point of cognitive linguistics, the semantic verb derivatives are observed in the system of subdialects. The analysis of several word-formative models is given and structural-semantic and paradigmatic relations between derivatives and inflections in the sphere of...

• Direito e Praxis

• O Globo

• O Globo

• Seqüência: estudos jurídicos e políticos

The erosion of the freedom of the seas regime that has been taking place especially since the end of World War II seems to be continuing more gradually and in a different manner. In order to protect the interests of the international community coinciding more or less with their own needs, the coastal states, the archipelagic states, the regional fishing organizations for the high seas and the...

• Revista Gênero & Direito

The article is devoted to the study of folkloric elements in the works of Tatar writer of the second half of the twentieth century, Gumer Bashirov. Verbal folklore reflects the spiritual world of the people, its ideals and dreams, values of life, centuries-old creative experience of the people, language features, poetic idea of the world. Also, folklore is unique in its form and content, themes...

• Revista de Gestao USP

• Veredas do Direito. Direito Ambiental e Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Climate change is the main environmental challenge to be face by most countries. In this sense, tropical forests play a prominent role, as well as providing diverse ecosystem services, contribute to the storage of CO2, thus minimizing the effects of the release into the atmosphere. However, this type of ecosystem undergoes constant anthropic pressures ranging from the expansion of the...

• Brazilian Administration Review - BAR

• Veredas do Direito. Direito Ambiental e Desenvolvimento Sustentável

This is a study about how the mythology of the kaiowá-guarani indigenous people of southern Mato Grosso do Sul influences the construction of the idea of sustainability. The mythology of the kaiowá-guarani nourishes their way of being and leads to something that can be described as a sustainability of life. Their deep knowledge of the land leads to care and respect in a relationship of...

• Cadernos PROLAM/USP. Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies

Este trabajo tiene el objetivo de realizar un análisis comparativo de la situación socioeconómica de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos de origen ecuatoriano, colombiano, boliviano, peruano, venezolano y brasileño, incorporados al mercado de trabajo en España, en 2001. Se pretende investigar si existen diferencias niveles de empleo, comparando los seis grupos de latinoamericanos, y cuáles están en...

• Política & Sociedade. Revista de Sociologia Política

Tendo em mente o cenário desencadeado pelas Alterações Climáticas (ACs) e o contexto europeu, este artigo pretende contribuir para fazer um balanço geral da situação nos países ibéricos, com dois tipos de dados complementares. Por um lado, dados objetivos, assentes no conhecimento técnico-científico, avançados pelo Índice de Desempenho em Alterações Climáticas (Climate Change Performance Index –...

• O Globo

• Política & Sociedade. Revista de Sociologia Política

Wine producers facing the transition to organic farming rely widely on networks of informal advice sharing among peers. Limited attention has been paid so far to the impact of actors’ values on collective learning, although the literature shows that they play a role both in the ecological transition (LAMINE et al., 2009) and in advice seeking (NAHAPIET et al., 1998). This paper explores the...

• Revista Novos Estudos Jurí­dicos

Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc., 528 U.S. 167 (2000), exposes fundamental incoherencies within environmental standing doctrine, even while it ostensibly makes standing easier to prove for plaintiffs in environmental citizen suits. According to Laidlaw, an environmental plaintiff needs only to show personal injury to satisfy Article ill’s standing...

• Veredas do Direito. Direito Ambiental e Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Given the current context of economic and political crisis experienced in Brazil, we propose a discussion about the state’s role in the implementation of environmental protection measures, especially considering the scenario of environmental degradation in protected areas, such as conservation units, permanent preservation areas, among others, due to anthropic activities. Through a...

• Brazilian Administration Review - BAR

• Brazilian Administration Review - BAR

The purpose of this research is to establish a conceptual framework that contributes to explaining sustained competitive advantage, forming an analytical framework that brings the resource-based view and organizational analysis’ neoinstitutional approaches closer together. A detailed epistemological articulation has been undertaken to advance the understanding of strategy and competitive...

• Direito e Praxis